KNOW AIDS - NO AIDS
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic, life-threatening disease caused by a virus called human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The virus and the infection are known as HIV . Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a term used to refer to the later stages of the infection. Your body’s Immune System protects you from diseases. But when the HIV virus attacks your body’s Immune System it damages and/or destroys the Cells of your Immune System making you easily prone to various infections. Your body loses its ability to fight off viruses, bacteria and fungi that cause infections and disease. Causes of HIV HIV spreads through sex—oral, anal or vaginal—with an infected person or through blood when you share a needle used by an infected person for injecting yourself with drugs. Most commonly, the virus passes from person to person through body fluids such as blood, vaginal fluids and Semen. Babies born to infected mothers are also at a high risk o
